If you’re summiting a peak on Sunday, that’s the day to eat instant oatmeal for breakfast and dinner from a freeze-dried, heat-and-eat bag.
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Camp Cooking|AC Shilton|September 5, 2020|Outside Online
After departing from Springer Mountain in northern Georgia on July 7, she reached the summit of Maine’s Mount Katahdin 51 days, 16 hours, and 30 minutes later.
Inside an FKT Attempt on the Appalachian Trail|Martin Fritz Huber|September 3, 2020|Outside Online
Storz and colleagues captured several yellow-rumped leaf-eared mice, including the summit-topping one, plus mice from three other species from a range of high altitudes, the team reports July 16 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A South American mouse is the world’s highest-dwelling mammal|Jack J. Lee|July 29, 2020|Science News
However, networks seem to be nearing the point at which they will shift their weight from the traditional TV mountain in order to scale streaming’s summit.
TV networks begin to signal willingness to prioritize streaming over linear|Tim Peterson|July 29, 2020|Digiday
The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second—equivalent to about a million laptops.
Scientists Tap the World’s Most Powerful Computers in the Race to Understand and Stop the Coronavirus|Jeremy Smith|June 4, 2020|Singularity Hub
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But then the summit gives way to the other side of the hill, and a childlike glee arises from the whooooosh of the descent.
Biking With the Bard|Kara Cutruzzula|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To whet your appetite, you can relive that glorious moment (and watch other programs from the 2014 summit) here.
Save the Date: Women in the World 2015||December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The next time all the presidents from North and South America meet will be at the Summit of the Americas in Panama in April.
Venezuela Says Goodbye to Its Lil Friend, While the Rest of the Continent Cheers|Catalina Lobo-Guererro|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At the summit, Xi had been front and center, seemingly without peer.
Obama and Xi Jinping Say They’ll Work Together to Save Environment|Ben Leung|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I had scarcely reached the summit of the headland when I heard a cry of pain.
The Passion for Life|Joseph Hocking
On the summit of a height called Mostyn mountain, is a monumental stone denominated Maen Achwynfan (the stone of lamentation).
Curiousities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol. 1|Thomas Dugdale
Our young couple did not visit the crater and the Summit until the sun had lost most of its power.
The Crater|James Fenimore Cooper
This was a something which caught our eyes as we struck the summit of a small hill—a red glow, a good way off.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
When the foremost ranks had nearly reached the summit, a sudden silence stifled the musketry.
Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty|J. W. de Forest
British Dictionary definitions for summit
summit
/ (ˈsʌmɪt) /
noun
the highest point or part, esp of a mountain or line of communication; top
the highest possible degree or state; peak or climaxthe summit of ambition
the highest level, importance, or ranka meeting at the summit
a meeting of chiefs of governments or other high officials
(as modifier)a summit conference
Derived forms of summit
summital, adjectivesummitless, adjective
Word Origin for summit
C15: from Old French somet, diminutive of som, from Latin summum; see sum1